Famous Rock Album Sleeve

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Fri May 09, 2003 12:11 pm

Has to be Abbey Road.

JML · Post by **JML** » Fri May 09, 2003 3:29 pm

meddler wrote:Maybe the first is the White Album.... a hey, a hey! I wonder how long it took them to come up with that one?

I'm not sure but there was a story about that "white album" -idea on Mojo Magazine's Beatles -special, 1000 days of revolution. The whole record was intended to be white but somebody said that there mst be some pictures too... or something...

Post by **mosespa** » Fri May 09, 2003 6:59 pm

From what I understand...and you can take this with as many grains of salt as you wish...the purpose of the white cover was to place emphasis on the name The Beatles (which is actually the proper title of the album) in what appeared to have been the first attempt at restoring some kind of unity to the band.

This carried out even further with what became Let It Be. It was originally going to be called "Get Back" because that's what they were trying to do...Get Back to their roots...the days when they were a band, rather than four musicians who happened to be playing each others songs together in the same room.

Obviously, it failed.

Rather ironic that on an album intended to try to bring back group unity, there are John songs, Paul songs, George songs and Ringo songs...but no BEATLES songs.

Viewed in this light, one can almost call the white album The Beatles' Ummagumma...just without a live disc.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Fri May 09, 2003 7:05 pm

The white cover (save for the generic number stamped onto the first few million pressings) was also intended as an antidote to all the sub-Sgt Pepper artwork flooding the market post June '67...

MikeWaters · Post by **MikeWaters** » Mon May 26, 2003 6:44 pm

The number one album cover is probably Sgt. Peppers but personally id say its Animals, the caver suits the album so well. A symbol of greed...

AthousandMilesOfMoonlight · Mon May 26, 2003 8:20 pm

The Wall is quite a famous album cover too !

MikeWaters · Post by **MikeWaters** » Mon May 26, 2003 11:15 pm

hahaha for sure it is! Ingenius!

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Tue May 27, 2003 12:34 am

AthousandMilesOfMoonlight wrote:The Wall is quite a famous album cover too !

i like the vinyl cover for the wall, but the CD cover sucks, they shouldnt have written pink floyd on it

JML · Post by **JML** » Tue May 27, 2003 6:54 am

Tommy wrote:
AthousandMilesOfMoonlight wrote:The Wall is quite a famous album cover too !
i like the vinyl cover for the wall, but the CD cover sucks, they shouldnt have written pink floyd on it

Same thing with Beatles' (White Album), 30th Anniversary album is good (just like the vinyl) but the version I have... huh... "The BEATLES" written in grey font

Richter_M. · Post by **Richter_M.** » Tue May 27, 2003 12:34 pm

I thought for sure somebody would've posted this already - it must be false. I read in the book "Why Knock Rock" (a collection of pathetic excuses to boycott the Evils of rock music) that the cover of the White Album was supposed to be some sort of raunchy pornography, but the record company wouldn't let it slip by, so in protest the Beatles just gave it a blank cover and name. I suppose there's little or no truth to this?

Anywho, I agree with those who think Abbey Road is the mostest famousest cover.

Post by **mosespa** » Tue May 27, 2003 6:25 pm

Richter_M. wrote:I thought for sure somebody would've posted this already - it must be false. I read in the book "Why Knock Rock" (a collection of pathetic excuses to boycott the Evils of rock music) that the cover of the White Album was supposed to be some sort of raunchy pornography, but the record company wouldn't let it slip by, so in protest the Beatles just gave it a blank cover and name. I suppose there's little or no truth to this?

Anywho, I agree with those who think Abbey Road is the mostest famousest cover.

I read that book back in high school...I think it's funny that the guys who wrote it once attacked the DOOBIE Brothers because of their name...and these guys are the PETERS brothers.

The only album cover I can remember The Beatles changing due to record company flack was the cover of a compilation called Yesterday And Today.

Because Capitol Records (the US label) was taking two or three songs off of each album and putting them together with (non-album) singles to make new albums, The Beatles felt that their albums were being butchered...so, for the cover of Yesterday and Today, they donned butcher smocks and bloodied themselves up and posed amongst a bunch of raw meat and dismembered baby dolls.

The cover was actually released, but recalled quickly and replaced with a photo of the boys standing around a trunk...Paul seated inside.

This later became the "coffin" clue in the Paul Is Dead fakery.